Buccaneers Wide Receiver Tops Speed Stat Over Miami Dolphins' Tyreek Hill

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Trey Palmer was still developing during his rookie year, and while there were a few bumps here and there, there was plenty to get excited about — and that includes his blistering speed.

NFL Next Gen Stats records a number of different statistics for NFL players every year, and they have a few different stats for wide receiver speed. One of those is burst speed, which they say is a measure of how fast a route runner is in the first second of their route.

Many would probably tab Tyreek Hill of the Miami Dolphins to lead any stat like this, given that he's the NFL's most notorious speedster, but they'd be wrong — according to Next Gen Stats, it's Palmer, who tops the entire list at 9.16 miles per hour. Palmer came in ahead of Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown at 9.11 mph and new Buffalo Bills receiver Curtis Samuel at 9.08 mph. Hill was fourth on the list at 9.03 mph.